It was a 90 minute conversation where I asked to record my side of the conversation for possible publication. The reason? We were discussing sales philosophy and how that might impact strategy, execution and building a business to reach higher levels o...

We’re smack dab in the middle of it. National Small Business Week. Sure, it’s a PR move to draw attention to an important community that fuels a big chuck of the economy. This event started in 1963 when the business landscape looked very different.

Over 30 years ago I ran across the term – Bula. I don’t remember where. I do remember instant fondness for the term because it carried the connotation that “life is good.” How can you not like that? I was so smitten with the term that I began to use it...

The darkness overtakes all of us. Some of us remain in the dark for a long time. Others are able to climb out of it more quickly. Get up in the middle of the night when your house is pitch black. One small light (of any color) can make all the difference

Some people are more open than others. We’re not all driven by our natural wiring to share. I am, but even guys like me have a reservation sometimes. It’s appropriate. Today’s video is less than 7 minutes long, but it can help you better

When a business owner tells me, “Sometimes, I speak from my heart,” then my radar sounds a warning. Well, not a warning as much as an alert. It gets my attention. You can’t separate your head from your heart so stop all this foolishness

You see it in all sorts of places and spaces. I’m a hockey fan. I’ve seen it prominently in the last week or so. The Dallas Stars re-hired head coach Ken Hitchcock, their 1999 Stanley Cup winning coach. Hitch was most recently fired from the S

Too many people work for autocrats. And we’ve got too many autocrats. There should be an open season on them to reduce their population, but sadly that’s against the law. Unless the autocrat comes to herself or himself…nothing will impro

I don’t care who the President of the U.S. is. I don’t care what the weather is like either. I don’t even care what the economy is doing. You shouldn’t care either because none of those things (and many more) have no impact on the two things you contro...

The fast path to the truth is your employees. It’s something that every business owner must understand. Leaders who don’t roam around their company are wasting their most valuable asset – people. Grow Great is all about higher human performance.